ubuntu-desktop not installed after upgrade to Dapper

[Phillip Susi]

This is not a bug.  At certain times during the development various 
packages become broken for periods of time.  It is not uncommon for one 
of the packages that ubuntu-desktop depends on to become broken, and 
doing a blind upgrade will remove the broken package, and ubuntu-desktop 
as well since it depends on the broken package. 


You probably did a blind upgrade and ubuntu-desktop got uninstalled.  
The other day I noticed that ubuntu-desktop was going to be removed when 
I upgraded, so I didn't.  I didn't look into it to see which package was 
broken, but it is probably fixed by now. 


Either don't upgrade if the upgrade will result in removing 
ubuntu-desktop, or simply reinstall ubuntu-desktop a few days later once 
the broken package is fixed. 



Frank McCormick wrote:
> Frank Merenda <fmerenda at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>   
>> All,
>>
>> I recently dist-upgrade to dapper from the flight-5 CD, and have been dutifully 
>> upgrading every day. I just noticed that the meta-package 'ubuntu-desktop' was 
>> somehow uninstalled during the upgrade. After installing it again it upgraded 
>> several packages. You all may want to install the 'ubuntu-desktop' package if 
>> it's not installed.
>>
>>     
>
>
>
>    Just checked my system and asking apt-get to install unbuntu-desktop resulted in a 50 meg dl and a bunch of new packages installed...and a bunch recommended. As far as I know I newver removed ubuntu-desktop. 
>
>   
>> I've added this to launchpad as a bug:
>>
>> https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/ubuntu-meta/+bug/35070
>>
>>     
>
>   and I added a comment
>
>
> - -- 
> Cheers
>
> Frank
>